His just fine around Monaco. The Mclaren car since 2010 is better at fast turns and mediocre at slow corners like Monaco and Hungary.
Staying with others with better car for the tracks was already good enough and shows he did a fine job.
Let’s not forget that all the first five were a little train until the last lap.

Monaco is about mechanical grip. Don’t get confused about the heavy downforce some engineers say that Monaco needs. They speak about two different types of downforce but it’s really confusing for the average fan to get what they are going on about.

The Mclaren downforce comes to life in fast corners not slow like Monaco.
The race they really lost was Barcelona where Hamilton could go well in free air. Here they never where the best car.

Now Mclaren and their drivers are having to play catch up after blowing opportunities in previous races.
To think Alonso was all but written off by Button, although the season is still long, Ferrari have maximised their potential and as their car is improved, they can be an even greater force.

I think Ferrari is not that bad. It was awful in the first qualifying sessions of the season but their race pace has always been there and lately their not overall worse than neither McLaren, Red Bull or Mercedes.

On McLaren, bad call after bad calls until they realize it’s too late.

I expect Mercedes to win Canada, iit should be their strongest circuit over one lap (as long as their tyre wear doesn’t come back to haunt them) and Hamilton in the top three, that should tighten it up a bit more.

stop blaming whitmarsh, he doesnt drive the cars, he doesnt change the tyres at the pitsops, he doesnt design the car. who would you replace him with?? would anyone do any better with the personal mclaren has? whitmarsh is the best man for the job, he has been involved in the team for so long.

True Withmarsh doesn’t do any of those things. But a team principal should realise a fast car alone doesn’t win races. If you don’t manage your drivers well during races, you get no result. It took him four races to realise they had to work on their pit stops.
You don’t hope the next race will be better, you make the most of the current race.
It aapears his mistake in Spain has made him see he has got a lot wrong. If he focuses Mclaren can still salvage their situation but it is a lot more difficult now.

Mclaren don’t seem to have the capacity to make good/smart strategic calls, a bunch of dumb fellows in there. Vettel’s move caught them napping. Ferrari’s perfect pit stops are making up for any inadequacies their car might have, plus their race pace isn’t that bad.

Since Whitmarsh Mclaren is also poor on the creativity/design side as well. We seeing some great ingenuity from the likes of Mercedes and Redbull. If Whitmarsh is not to blame then who is? What will it take to turn that team around?

Grosjean and Schumacher have the least number of km raced, even below backmarkers… Roughly 1000 km to maximum 1800.
Frenchman should try to survive first lap.
German should kick some butts in quality control department.